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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that the district
comprised within any of the cities, towns, or places
therein particularly specified, incorporated or reputed
to have been incorporated as therein mentioned
(including, amongst other cities and towns or places,
the town hereinafter named and specified), may,
upon the performance or happening of the conditions
and upon compliance with the terms by the said Act
imposed, by Proclamation of the Governor, be con-
stituted a borough under the said Act: And whereas
the conditions and terms by the said Act imposed for
the constitution as a borough of the district within
the town hereinafter specified have been duly per-
formed, have happened, and have been complied
with:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
constitute and proclaim the district comprised within

THE TOWN OF BLENHEIM,

as the boundaries thereof are defined in and by
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," to be a
Borough under the said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington; and issued under
the Public Seal of the said Colony, this
sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the second section of "The Colo-
nial Forces Courts-Martial Act, 1868," it is
enacted that the Governor may from time to time,
by Proclamation published in the New Zealand
Gazette, appoint and declare any portion of the.
Colony defined in such Proclamation to be a
"Disturbed District", within the meaning of the
said second section of the said Act; and that during
the time that any of the officers or men of the New
Zealand Armed Constabulary, embodied under "The
Armed Constabulary Act, 1867," shall be stationed,
employed, or in any way on service within any
district proclaimed under the said section of the said
Act as a Disturbed District, all things contained in
any Act of the Imperial Parliament which shall then
be in force in New Zealand for punishing Mutiny
and Desertion, and for the better payment of the
Army and their quarters, and in the Articles of War
made in pursuance of such Act, shall apply to, and
the powers thereby created shall be exercised by,
such officers and men of the New Zealand Armed
Constabulary aforesaid:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pur-
suance of the power and authority in that behalf
vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare all that
portion of the Colony situated within the Province
of Taranaki and bounded as follows, that is to
say:-On the South by the River Hangatahua from
its mouth to its source, thence a straight line to the
summit of Mount Egmont, thence by a straight line
running due East to the eastern boundary of the said
Province; on the East by the eastern boundary of the
said Province; on the North by the northern boundary
of the said Province; on the West by the sea, to be
a "Disturbed District" within the meaning of the
second section of "The Colonial Forces Courts-
Martial Act, 1868," aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of